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The way we think as human beings cracks me up. I mainly laugh at myself. But it is also fair to say that after I notice my own comically wrong thinking (or, more accurately, the Holy Spirit shows it to me), I can usually spot the herd I was following.

Last weekend, on a whim, I sat down and watched parts of Saving Private Ryan – one of the few movies I’ve watched multiple times over the years. I’m not a huge fan of war movies. There are a few, however, that have characters and stories that are just so compelling.

Why do you not typically see glory in the ordinary? Think about the movies we watch, when was the last time you witnessed an ordinary, mundane, boring person saving the day or being the hero. Our culture is so fascinated with the extraordinary, the special, the significant, and if we take an internal inventory and are truthful with ourselves we often want to be those people (Is it just me?).

Let’s start with a story: Once upon a not-too-distant time, in a not-too-distant place, lived a married couple of several years.

I’m looking out the window on a rainy afternoon, watching water rush from a little pond into a stream. I’m pondering how it is that I so easily drift away from my Treasure and toward destruction. Drifting always seems so peaceful, so quiet, so easy and then I’m in danger, wondering how I got there so quickly.